[The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of the pancreas carcinoma (author's transl)].
Although diagnosis of the pancreas carcinoma is only possible in an advanced stage, it is recommendable to try a radiotherapy as long as there are no remote metastases. If the patients are adequately selected, further if the target volume is exactly localized and charged with a high dose, it should be possible to reach considerably longer survival times. Different irradiation methods with ultrahard photons and high energy electrons are compared with regard to their therapeutic value.
D004583:Electrons; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy; D013534:Survival
Rolle der Strahlentherapie in der Behandlung des Pankreaskarzinoms.